+The DragonFly 2.2 release is here! The HAMMER filesystem is considered production-ready in this release; It was first released in July 2008. The 2.2 release represents major stability improvements across the board, new drivers, much better pkgsrc support and integration, and a brand new release infrastructure with multiple target options.

+

+Three release options are now available: Our bare-bones CD ISO, a DVD ISO which includes a fully operational X environment, and a bare-bones bootable USB disk-key image (less then 512M).

## Availability

@@ -17,11+19,9 @@ The release ISO images should be available on most of the [[mirrors|mirrors]]. I

### pkgsrc packages

-We offer over 7300 pre-built [pkgsrc](http://www.pkgsrc.org) packages for this release. To download the packages from your preferred [[mirror|mirrors]], use the following command:

+We offer over 7300 pre-built [pkgsrc](http://www.pkgsrc.org) packages for this release. The [pkg_radd(1)] (http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=pkg_radd&section=ANY) utility may be used to download pre-built binary packages. By default this script will query the main package site for a random redirect to one of our mirrors. The path can be overridden by setting BINPKG_SITES in /etc/settings.conf.

-Now you can use [pkg_radd(1)](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=pkg_radd&section=ANY) to download the binary packages. To get a list of all packages, let [pkg_search(1)](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=pkg_search&section=ANY) download the summary file for that release:

+To get a list of all packages, let [pkg_search(1)](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=pkg_search&section=ANY) download the summary file for that release:

# pkg_search -d

@@ -53,7+53,7 @@ Now you can use [pkg_radd(1)](http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=p

#### HAMMER changes

* HAMMER is now considered production-capable. Many bug fixes and other improvements have been made.

-* It is now possible to boot from a HAMMER-only disk. No need for a single UFS partition for /boot.

+* It is now possible to boot from a HAMMER-only disk. No need for a single UFS partition for /boot. However, for production systems we still recommend a small UFS /boot followed by swap followed by one large HAMMER partition.